New Ways To Evolve, Not Just Mega-Evolution

October 25th, 2013 by Olivia

A new generation of Pokémon means a new generation of evolving. In Pokémon X and Pokémon Y trainers have new challenges in getting Kalos’ Pokémon to evolve. The most powerful are the awesome Mega-Evolutions of a select few lucky Pokémon. Hit the jump to learn more about Mega Pokémon and how to evolve certain Pokémon with new methods!

As of now, we may not have completely finished with our site’s XY walkthrough and XY Pokédex, but this will probably help you out as you play through Kalos!

This may not technically be evolving but a Pokémon’s color and size can now be chosen depending when and where you catch it.

Flabébé, Floette and Florges come in red, yellow, orange, blue or white. More specifically the flower petals held by the Pokémon will stay as the color when it was first encountered. Now what’s cool about this is which ever color Flabébé you catch keeps the same color as it evolves: When a Shiny Stone is used on Floette, it evolves into its final form Florges; Florges’ color difference is now the color of its head.

The Pumpkin Pokémon Pumpkaboo evolves into Gourgeist by trading at any level. Here’s the deal though, Pumpkaboo comes in four sizes: small, average, large and super size. It is not certain if there’s specific encounter percentage on what sizes show up in the wild more often. This is the first time in the series that there’s a Pokémon that comes in different sizes.

(New) Unique Conditions For Evolving

Pancham evolves into Pangoro at level 32 if there’s another Dark-type in your team.

Inkay evolves into Malamar at level 30 if you flip the 3DS/2DS upside down.

Tyrunt evolves into Tyrantrum at level 39 during the daytime (friendship level does not matter).

Amaura evolves into Aurorus at level 39 during the nighttime (friendship level does not matter).

Eevee evolves into Sylveon by leveling up knowing a Fairy-type move and has at least two affection hearts in Pokémon-Amie.

Sliggo evolves at level 50 into Goodra only if it is raining.

Mega-Evolutions

Venasaur
w/ Venusaurite

Charizard X
w/ Charizardite X (X version only)

Charizard Y
w/ Charizardite Y (Y version only)

Blastoise
w/ Blastoisinite

Alakazam
w/ Alakazite

Gengar
w/ Gengarite

Kangaskhan
w/Kangaskhanite

Pinsir
w/ Pinsirite

Gyarados
w/ Gyaradosite

Aerodactyl
w/ Aerodactylite

Mewtwo X
w/ Mewtwonite X (X version only)

Mewtwo Y
w/ Mewtwonite Y (Y version only)

Ampharos
w/ Ampharosite

Scizor
w/ Scizorite

Heracross
w/ Heracrossite

Houndoom
w/ Houndoomite

Tyranitar
w/ Tyranitarite

Blaziken
w/ Blazekinite

Gardevoir
w/ Gardevoirite

Mawile
w/ Mawilite

Aggron
w/ Aggronite

Medicham
w/ Medichamite

Manectric
w/ Manectite

Banette
w/ Banettite

Absol
w/ Absolite

Garchomp
w/ Garchompite

Lucario
w/ Lurcarionite

Abomasnow
w/ Abomasite

They’re may be a few Mega-Evolutions so far but I’m sure there will be more eventually. I predict more Mega Pokemon will be available through possible free DLC (downloadable content) from the Nintendo eShop or through a special event.

I had no clue about Mega Gardevoir until now! and now I’m flipping out cause it’s literally my favorite Pokemon! at first i thought it was weird cause it looks like they inflated its dress, but looking at its actually really beautiful. instead of the normal Geisha style, it’s a ball gown dress! probably the first Mega Evolution so far that perfectly fits the theme of Kalos!

you had to close it, and that took FOREVER to figure out! i did it once and had no idea how i figured it out. when i played the game again i closed it in frustration and figured out that was the answer. XXDD

too bad they never used it again. if the ds games had anything going for them it was their innovative controls. out of all i hear people complaining about them, that’s the one thing everybody loves, even if they weren’t comfortable with using the stylus itself.

they were mine too. i don’t see nearly as much wrong with PH as the more experienced fans do since it was my first video game ever. ST i definitely don’t like as much as PH nor as much as the first console game i played which was TP. ST is just too easy and its overworld is even more boring than even WW’s i presume. at least in WW you could still follow more than just a preset path of tracks. :/

well, when i first payed PH it wasnt worse for me, i didnt
thought about the minus thingsd,, later on zelda dungeon all kind
of people were very negative about it, i cant except THATTTT
it was nice, and enox, the and eox ancient stone soldier
he was a very great boss! very epic

i first played it when i was 11, and thought the game was epic and the final boss fight was extremely difficult. i played it again at 15, found the boss to be extremely easy and the ending to be incredibly stupid. then i started playing again recently, and the nostalgia made me cry. brings back so many memories, back from when i seriously had no clue what Zelda was but i played it anyways! ;____;

haha just like youre saying, with the hourglass
sign you had to draw with the final boss-battle
that was hard, no idea what to do, and if you have the swordmanns scroll, you must do the spin-attack, against his purple-tornado-
spin attack thats coool

aaah i love the mega-evolutions
and i want to create on online leaugue with friends online..
if i can migrate later, i migrate my
absol
honchkrow
sharpedo
drapion
cacturne
hyrdreigon all level 70
and got a spiritomb, houndoom
and tyranitar already on level 100
and a mightyena of level 64, and a pancham, of level 28

than i will become a member of my own league
with my dark pokemon, and than we batlle eachother to
make the champion

Zekrom was black, Reshiram was white, the combination of the two colors was gray which was Kyurem. So obviously the next game should’ve been Pokemon Gray version, right? well, they didn’t do that. Z might be the obvious choice with a legendary to go with it, but given Pokemon’s sudden patterns with their last two releases, i think they’re done with being predictable like that. Not to mention, Zygarde actually isn’t all that pretty a Pokemon like Xerneas and Yveltal, so i don’t think it’ll make a very good cover Pokemon without a new form (Giratina was the same way really). and just look, there are only 6 legendaries this Gen that we know of, they could bring out a whole other set of legendaries for the next game, and given how small Gen 6 is Pokemon wise, i wouldn’t be surprised if there’s a lot more (or at least a lot of different) in store.

Doesn’t matter if its the alphabet, like i said, it really looks like Pokemon is breaking its trends. and everybody really expected Pokemon Gray version, it followed the pattern they’d been doing for years, it matched the third legendary, there was even a website name dubbed for it, but they did B2W2 instead. Z seems just as obvious, but we could get X2Y2 or something completely different! and what does Aura Break do? i’m nowhere near that part of the gmae. :3

its grey and not gray
and auro break, makes the abilities of
xerneas and yveltal useless, if zygarde is around
so if xerneas and zygarde are both on the battle ground
tha ability of xerneas doesnt work anymore

We’re both right, it depends on where you’re from. In my area we spell it gray. (based on the website domain that was claimed but never used before B2W2, i think the official version would’ve been spelled Gray, though i don’t know if they change that sort of thing between english speaking regions, it would seem kind of useless to retranslate an already english game jus to account for different spelling, but maybe they do that, i don’t know. XP)only Xerneas and Yveltal though? seems like a fairly useless ability unless a) Xerneas and Yveltal are pretty OP or b) they plan on bringing in other Pokemon with either those abilities or Aura abilities. considering Xerneas and Yveltal’s abilities are exclusive to their types, I would think that we’ll see more type Aura abilities in the future. Besides that, the ability does fit Zygarde’s theme really well, it being the Order between Life and Destruction.

California. :/ I just found a source that says “Gray is used primarily in the United States and other areas that use US English. Grey is used in Great Britain and areas that use UK English.” So i think you have it backwards: i think they would spell it “grey” in Australia. at least by trends, there are likely exceptions. XD

You can actually get the varying Mega Evolutions in both versions. The different Mega Stones are available for purchase, and you can also have them traded over. I did the latter to get Mega Charizard X.